Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to "lead the optimization" of its models on TPUs (Ryan Barwick/The Information)

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Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/261027/p39#a261027p39 <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-longtime-nvidia-customer-plans-buy-googles-ai-chips"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/261027/i39.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/261027/p39#a261027p39" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ryan Barwick / <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>: <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-longtime-nvidia-customer-plans-buy-googles-ai-chips">Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to “lead the optimization” of its models on TPUs</a>  —  OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer Nvidia.

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OpenAI plans to buy Google’s AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer Nvidia. Financial terms and other details of OpenAI’s planned purchase couldn’t be learned. But any deal for it to buy tensor processing units would be a big win for Google’s chip business, which is a growing challenger to the Nvidia graphics processing units that have dominated the market for AI computing power. OpenAI has been one of the most valuable customers for Nvidia, which in turn has invested tens of billions of dollars in the startup.

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